Men's Golf

FSU Men's Golf Finish 11th Place At The Jewell

Senior Kyle Wittenbach posted a season-best two-round 144 score to tie for second place at The Jewell.

Apr 03, 2011

Senior Kyle
Wittenbach (Lowell) turned in his best performance of
this season with a two-round 144 stroke total as the Ferris State
University men's golf team finished 11th of 25 teams at the NCAA-II
Midwest Region Tournament II-The Jewell this weekend (April 2-3) at
Georgetown, Ky.

The Bulldogs turned in a first-round 304 score in Saturday's
(April 2) action before registering a 305-stroke total on Sunday
(April 3) in final-round action to tally a 33-strokes over par 609
team score at the par 72, 6,882-yard Cherry Blossom Golf
Course.

Missouri-St. Louis generated a 588 (+12) score to win the
tournament, which was seven strokes better than second-place Wayne
State's 595-stroke total (+19). Ferris State finished three
strokes in back of Bellarmine (606, +30) for 10th-place honors and
a stroke ahead of 12th-place Maryville (610, +34).

Wittenbach shot an even-par 144 (69-75=144) to
gain a share of second place on the individual leaderboard with
Wayne State's Steve Fedewa and Casey Pyne of Lewis. Medalist
honors went to Drury's Thomas Hay, who fired an one-under par 143
score with rounds of 73 and 70, respectively. Wittenbach, the
2010 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC)
Championship medalist, bettered his two-round 152 score (74-78=152)
at Grand Valley State The Arendsen Invitational (Sept. 25-26) in
which he garnered a 17th-place tie.

Freshman Trent Davison
(Rockford) was one of 10 players to gain a tie for 96th place as a
result of shooting a 162 (84-78=162, +18). Senior Joe
Brown (St. Ignace/LaSalle) rounded out the scoring for
the Bulldogs by recording a 192 score (98-94=192, +48) to place
125th in the tournament.

The Bulldogs will next compete in the NCAA-II Midwest Region
Tournament III this upcoming weekend (April 10-11) at hte Purgatory
Golf Course in Noblesville, Ind.